Richard Collins, a screenwriter during the McCarthy era who was blacklisted for several years before he cooperated with the Communist-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee, died Thursday in Ventura.

The onetime Communist Party member was 98 and the last of the group of left-leaning writers and directors known as the Hollywood 19, 10 of whom went to prison for refusing to name names before the committee.

At least the LA Times acknowledges that he was a communist. That is a huge step forward for liberals.

The issue of the day back then was the “horrible” question asked by HUAC: “Are you now, or were you ever, a member of the communist party?” Legitimate responses were “Yes,” “No,” and to plead the fifth amendment. Simple perjury was hardly an option as the FBI had infiltrated the communist party and knew the answer before the question was asked. Liberals have made heroes of those who refused to answer the question.

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posted on 02/15/2013 10:25:52 AM PST
by ChessExpert
(The unemployment rate was 4.5% when Democrats took control of Congress in 2006)

Senator Joe McCarthy remains a hero of mine, having been old enough to recall the hearings well. Being branded a McCarthyite is an honor. It’s likewise with being called a gun nut, racist, homophobe or intolerant. The left uses those terms of derision against Christian Conservatives who want to restore traditional American values that made our country truly great.

He also wrote the treatment for "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," the 1956 science-fiction movie about a town whose residents are replaced by emotionless alien clones. It was widely interpreted as a parable about the McCarthy era.

Yes, indeed. The artichoke people bent on taking over the human race might be likened to the Communists, and the protagonist trying to sound the alarm was played by an actor named McCarthy--Kevin McCarthy.

The article is interesting. He had been a party member, and then left as he was disillusioned with the kind of Stalinist mind-control members were subjected to.

He first refused to name communists because he thought it unseemly (which got him blacklisted) but then later named them. He said he thought it silly to take the 5th, which implied he was a communist, when in fact he had left the party.

In Hollywood of the day, either way you were cooked. If you refused to name names, your friends blacklisted you. If you named them, you were a traitor.

Since communists killed something like a hundred million people it makes sense that there should be a price to pay for supporting such monsters. And it stands to reason that people who support mass murder aren’t going to be nice to people who turn on them.

The propaganda and brain wash has been so great that few people I know.. even know what a “COMMUNIST” (( IS ))..

Even communists have been documented to have murdered multi-millions of people in various countrys in the last century.. mostly by their fellow citizens.. AND made billions more miserable..

Most have no idea that communists are socialists and that socialism is driven by democracy.. Democracy is the political disease that causes socialism.. and that communism, socialism and democracy are a lie, a boondoggle..

Democracy is a nasty word.. a heinous concept..
NO democracy has even been or ever will be democratic..
Democracy is a HOLY word to the brain washed.. an idol..
Democracy is “the UNICORN” to the Utopians.. i.e. democrats..

**Note; the US Constitution does not mention democracy.. or any form of that word.. ON PURPOSE.. The founders knew the word and steered away from it as shoals to be shipwrecked on..

Americas problem NOW is the Republic being INFECTED with the concept of democracy.. Yes; DISEASED.. contaminated with.. sickened.. America MUST BE CURED of democracy..

Democracy is a lie, a scam.. bait and switch.. a boondoggle..
AN elite ALWAYS runs any political system no matter the name it is called..
Democracy is a mask for something very nasty.. THEFT on a MASSIVE scale..

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posted on 02/15/2013 10:48:39 AM PST
by hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)

Lots of people who have worked in the film business have had periods of unemployment. The work is sporadic. It sounds better to say that you were “blacklisted” rather than unemployed. I take all of those “blacklisted in Hollywood” stories with a grain of salt.

I was hoping somebody would chime in with that little truth nugget on McCarthy. Simpleton writers use the Senator’s name as a pejorative for something they either don’t know the first thing about or choose to obfuscate. Thanks for putting that comment in the thread!

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posted on 02/15/2013 10:53:52 AM PST
by T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)

Ding ding ding! Joseph McCarthy was a SENATOR. It would have been hard for him to conduct the HUAC (HOUSE Unamerican Activities Committee) hearings. He chaired the Army-McCarthty investigations, which were limited to the Armed Forces.

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